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- 1641: Summary Of Kidnapped
- Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson has a genre that classifies as historical fiction. I selected this book because the setting takes place during the 1750 s, which is a perfect time for history. At that year many historic ...
- 1642: Suffer The Little Children - S
- ... everything at once. The author compares her to God, which put her in a superior position, as if no one could possibly be above her. But she slowly loses control of herself. It starts when Robert shows he is not afraid of her: instead of looking frightened, he has a tiny side-of-the-mouth smile in his face, that bothers her extremely and leads her to her demise and ulimately ...
- 1643: Song Of Solomon
- ... s desire to fly is expressed when Milkman (as a young child) loses all interest in himself when he realizes that he cannot fly. Morrison proves that the "childish" desire to fly never dies when Robert Smith tries to fly from No Mercy Hospital in Michigan. Milkman quickly regains his confidence when he unlocks the mystery of his grandfather and recognizes that a he was able to fly: "And he began ...
- 1644: Simon, Lord Of The Flies
- ... beat him cruelly and he shrank away defenseless to his seat. (89) Just when he thought he had been accepted he embarrassed himself again, When he bashed into a tree Ralph looked sideways impatiently and Robert sniggered. (104) They were getting restless with his behavior. In the end, he was trying more to tell the boys what he knew, but they just thought he was weird. He told Ralph, You ll ...
- 1645: Stanley And Livingstone And Th
- ... M. Evans and Company, 1995. Included in this book is a detailed description about Henry Stanley's search for the Nile River. Debenham, Frank, O.B.E. The Way to Ilala. The University Press, Glasgow: Robert Maclehose and Company Limited, 1955 A biography of Livingstone. Includes nice map of Lake Tanganika that Livingstone drew. Dostert, Pierre Etienne, J.D. and others. Africa 1996. 31st ed. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post ...
- 1646: Pride And Prejudice, Sense And
- ... looses his fortune once his mother discovers his engagement to Lucy. Since she is of sub-par education and class, the engagement enrages Mrs. Ferrera. The engagement is called off and Lucy becomes interested in Robert, Edward s younger brother. She seduces him and they are soon married. Elinor is unaware of this event and is very melancholy. Edward visits her and tells her, perhaps you do not know-you may ...
- 1647: Naturalism In To Build A Fire
- ... he might have had a chance to survive. Nature showed no mercy when the man attempted to re-light the fire using only his palms, and he failed. "He was losing his battle with the frost. It was creeping into his body from all sides."(1754) The man's unfortunate mistakes cost him his life and nature felt no sympathy for him. He was just another man who failed to defeat ...
- 1648: Music And Ednas Awakening
- In Kate Chopin s The Awakening, the romantic and lyrical nature of Frederick Chopin s Impromptu, as well as its originality, are the vehicle by means of which Edna realizes her love for Robert and her desire to be free and self-determined. Chopin s Impromptu arouses "the very passions ... within [Edna s] soul"(p.34). The harmony, fluidity, subtle rhythm and poetic beauty of the Romantic composer make ...
- 1649: Janies Quest In There Eyes Wer
- ... Watching God shows the life of Janie, a black woman at the turn of the century. Janie is raised by her Grandmother and spends her life traveling with different men until she finally comes home. Robert E. Hemenway says about the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God is ... one of the most revealing treatments in modern literature of a woman s quest for a satisfying life I partially disagree with Hemenway ...
- 1650: Importance Of The Concept Of H
- ... of his time there, it is painted as a life of hardship and penance. Images and adjectives of the sea and life there are harsh and foreboding-"ice cold", "hung round with icicles" , "fettered with frost". The sea is seen as cold, and not just in the physical sense .It is remote, a place of despair , an earthly purgatory, where there is "always anxiety . as to what the Lord will bestow ...
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